Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedMontes Spitzbergen
Mons (59.2 km) — German for "sharp peaks", and named for resemblance to the terrestrial island group.
- Coordinates
- 34.4724, -5.21350000000001 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Mons
- Feature type
- Mons, montes
- Feature type code
- MO
- Diameter km
- 59.186596
- Etymology
- German for "sharp peaks", and named for resemblance to the terrestrial island group.
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1961
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4017
- Clean name
- Montes Spitzbergen
- Ethnicity
- Germany
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-25
Primary source